Valdemar I of Denmark initiates a campaign…

1160 CE

Valdemar I of Denmark initiates a campaign in 1160 to conquer the southern Baltic coast’s pagan Wends, a target of crusades by Henry the Lion and Albert the Bear since 1147.

Absalon, a Danish soldier-statesman leading the military effort against the Wends, besieges the Wend fortress at Arkona on Rügen.

Locations
Rügen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Germany View →

People
Absalon View → Henry the Lion View → Valdemar I of Denmark View →

Groups
Polytheism (“paganism”) View → Rani (Slavic tribe) View → Polabian Slavs (West Slavs) View → Wends, or Sorbs (West Slavs) View → Denmark, Kingdom of View → Christians, Roman Catholic View →

Topics
Crusades, The View → Ostsiedlung (German: Settlement in the East), a.k.a. German eastward expansion View → Danish War against the Wends View →

Commodities
Weapons View →

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